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35 Say
not ye, There are yet four months, and then
cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the
fields; for they are white already to harvest.

36 And
he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that
both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.

37 And
herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.(John 4:35-38)

Here Jesus spoke to His disciples just
before the people of Sychar came to see Jesus at the recommendation of the
woman at the well.The disciples
are about to reap many souls ready to hear the truth when they didn’t have to
do any searching for them or sowing gospel seeds.

I really like verse 36.“[H]e that reapeth receiveth wages, and
gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth
may rejoice together.”The
first part we know; the reapers receive a great blessing of joy in the
eternities for bringing souls to repentance, but the second part gets ignored,
and it has a promise that I never noticed before-- “that
both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.”That says to me that someday in the
next life, the news will get out to all the people who sowed gospel seeds that
they had a part in the bringing someone to salvation.That means I will get to find out who got reaped.I may find there are souls I seeded
without even knowing it.

I will get to find out how all the gospel
seeds I planted bore fruit and what part my influence played in the grand and
gripping story of someone’s conversion. With the person who reaped and the other people who
planted seeds, I will get to rejoice that our work paid off.

We know from D&C 18:15 that if we
labor all our days crying repentance and bring only one soul to Christ, our joy
will be great, but often the reaping may be far enough from the sowing that we
don’t get to participate in that joy in this life, and others reap in our
place.Other times we may be the
reapers of other peoples’ work to sow gospel seeds.

I like the promise of John 4:36 because
I have been mostly a seed planter, not getting to see the reaping of
souls.We seeders occasionally
wonder if we are doing any good.Someday I’ll get to know.Someday you’ll get to know too.In the meantime, we sow.

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comments:

So true! The last Sunday I was a missionary the closing song of the Sacrament Meeting was "We are Sowing", it was a tender mercy from the Lord that let me know he was aware of all the seeds I'd sown and that he was pleased with my efforts. I look forward to being on the other side of the veil and meeting those whose hearts received the seeds I sowed, as well as those for whom I did temple work. What a blessed day of rejoicing that will be.

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